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G. SCHEIHING.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 27, 1922 Application filed August 2, 1920. Serial No. 400,814.

To all whom t may cm1/cem Be it known that I, GEORGE SCHEIHING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Hay Carrier, of which the following is a specification. f

This l invention aims to provide novel means for suspending a hay fork or like object, vwhilst the fork moves along a track, novel means being provided for releasing the fork for downward movement, when the fork has yarrived at a predetermined point along the track.

It is within the province of the disclosure to Aimprove generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains. v

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, one side plate of the carriage being broken away; Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section; Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 but showing the parts as they will appear after the fork has been released and lowered; and Figure 4 is a transverse section showing a slight modification in the track.

The numeral 1 denotesa carriage comprising side plates 10 connected at Vtheir lower ends by transverse members 2 and 3, preferably in the form of curved plates. Slots 61 are fashioned in the side plates 10. The carriage is provided at its upper corners with wheels 11, and at the lower cor ners of the carriage, sheaves 2O are located, the wheels and the sheaves being disposed between the side plates 10 and being journaled thereon.

The wheels 11 of the carriage 1 are adapted to traverse a track 12, which may be in the form of a cable, the track carrying a depending trip denoted generally by the numeral 73 and including a body 13 and side iianges 14 having downwardly inclined ends 4.

A latch 15 is mounted for vertical reciprocation in the slots l61k ofthe side plateslO of the carriage, the latch being U-shaped, so that, as depicted in Figure 2, the lower portion of the trip 13 may `pass through the latch when the carriage 1 is advanced suificiently. .The lside portions of the latch 15 are supplied with inwardly extended projections, which may be rollers'16, the said rollers being adapted to ride along` the flanges 1,4 ofthe tripy 13, in a way to be described hereinafter-- The latch 15 is equipped on `itsopposite sides with ribs 63. The ends of the ribs 63 cooperate with the inner surfaces of the side plates 10 and prevent the latch 15 from/sliding endwise out of the slots 61 of the carriage 1. 4 One of these ribs 63 has another :function will be alluded to hereinafter.v

The numeral 17 denotes a keeper disposed between the. side plates 10` ofthe carriage 1 and pivotally supported thereon, as indicated at 18 for vertical swinging movement. The keeper includes a lower finger 38, an intermediate finger 39, and a lug 19 which is disposed approximately at right angles to the finger 39.

The numeral 21 Adenotes a flexible element trained across the sheaves 2O of the carriage 1 and formed, between the sheaves, into a depending bight 86. In the bight 86 of the flexible element 21 is located a sheave 23 constituting a part of a block24 having an upper eye 25 and a lower hook 91, the hook 91 supporting, perhaps, a hay fork 26. In view of the fact that the structure may be used with devices other than hay forks, the block 24, and whatever it may carry, may be alluded to as a rider supported in the bight 86 of the iiexible element 21.

In practical operation, referring to Figure 1 of the drawings, the latch 15 slides downwardly to the lower ends of the slots 61 in the carriage 1, until one of the ribs 63 is in the path of the lug 19 of the latch 15, the lower finger 38 being disposed in an approximately horizontal position, and the eye 25' of the block 24 being engaged with the said finger. Obviously, when the parts are arranged as above described, the block 24 which and a fork 26 are supported against downward movement.

The carriage 1 advances along the track 12 sol until the rollers 16 on the latch 15 ride upon the side llanges 14 of the trip 73, by way of the inclined ends 4 of the said flanges. This step in the procedure causes the latch 15 to move upwardly in the slots 63 of the carriage, the rib 63 on the latch being withdrawn Jfrom in front of the lug 19 of the latch. rhe latch, under the weight of the Ablock 24 and the fork 26, will tilt 'from the positionof Figure 1 to the position of Figure 3, the block being released for downward movement, the linger 38 coming into contact with the transverse member 2, and the linger 39 spanning thespace between the transverse members 2 and 3.

f of Figure 1. It is not mandatory that the track be in the form of a cable. Thus, as shown in Figure 4, the track may be made up of anglemembers 42 connected at intern vals` as indicated at 43 and trussed as at 44, the trip being shown at 13".

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a, device of the class described, a carriage comprising` laterally spaced side plates and transverse curved plates connecting the side plates with their curved faces arranged opposite each other and spaced apart, a keeper pivoted between the side blades above said curved plates an'd adapted to swing between said curved plates, said keeper including a lower linger, an intermediate iinger and an upper lug, a latch slidably mounted on the side plates and cooperating with the lug to hold the lower linger of the keeper in approximately horizontal position, the lower linger engaging one curved plate, and the intermediate nger spanning` the space between said curved plates when the latch is disengaged from the keeper lug, a rider, a flexible element slidable on. the carriage and formed; into a bight which supports the rider, the flexible element constituting means for elevating the riderto cause it tov engage the intermediate linger, tilt the keeper, and cause the lower finger of the keeper to support the rider, and a trip cooperating with the latch to disengage the latch from the keeper.

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing as nry own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence olfV two witnesses.

NVM, P. FLEMING, ROY HENTZEL. 

